Talk:Chess/Opening theory table

Merge with existing topic
Merge with Chess Opening Theory/Theory table. SunCreator (talk) 11:09, 23 May 2008 (UTC)✅

=/+
what does =/+ mean please? --Arkelweis (talk) 09:57, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
 * It means black is better. SunCreator (talk) 11:57, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
 * and the "∞"? 83.6.155.108 (talk) 00:11, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

What does "∞/=" mean? Could someone add a section or sentence explaining ∞?
 * This is neithera section or sentence, but a reference: Special/Permalink/1019527968
 * I added a wikipedia link that explains the symbols with a little more detail (apologies if this is bad practice here). Basically "∞" means "Unclear", and "=/∞" means "Compensation". RequestSelector (discuss • contribs) 19:16, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Whoops, I just realized there's an existing link to regarding specific positions in that section that contains similar content. I'll leave it as is for now in case it's helpful. Another (perhaps over the top) option would be to transclude the table with . RequestSelector (discuss • contribs) 18:30, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

red moves?
I do not see an explaination for different colors.

ellipsis
why is ... a good idea for a table? Is it just the lazy typist? Seems like a bad choice to me. If the table is very large, the reader has to continually keep moving their eyes up the initial referent if they forget what the referent was. More work for the reader. Ish ishwar (discuss • contribs) 03:26, 26 August 2017 (UTC)

oh, and another issue is that ... has actually two meanings! One is a prefix meaning Black's move. The other is this see-first-mention-in-same-column-inside-of-table variable. Ish ishwar (discuss • contribs) 03:30, 26 August 2017 (UTC)